Chapter 186 — Before the Contract

Milagros arrived home past midnight. She closed the door slowly, without turning on the light, as if silence were the only possible way to understand what she had just lived through. She lived in her parents’ house in Montevideo, the one they used whenever they came to the branch, since their main home was still in Maldonado. During the week, they were almost never there, and that huge house sometimes felt too big for a single breath. More than once, she had th